Surf insertion, house of seasports and ecocitizenship
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Organization: Surf insertion
Sport - Other
Year the initative began (yyyy) - 1997
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Project URL: http://surfinsertion.com
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What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence? - Surf Insertion carries out actions so as to promote seasports and ecocitizenship on the french coast among youngs of difficult districts.
Describe your innovation. What makes your idea unique and different than others doing work in the field? - Whitout any pretention, our organization is the only one who generalize this sport, link it to education and environment, and by lead youngs to a professional insertion.
Without any discrimination, we give youngs, who are in general excluded of this kind of pratical, the opportunity to discover sea sports on the french coast, to perform them, to improve their sense of solidarity and autonomy. Our activity is mainly directed to this audience in the will to widen their social, sportive and cultural background. Our goal is to let these youngs leave their areas or village and discover a natural environment. This association carries out many projects with hundred of etablishments. We chose the surf practical and other sea sports because it drive us to respect different rules and if we cheat them , and put a blind eyes on the nature, we will be automatically punished. Thanks to this game with the nature, the surfer learns to respect it. Moreover, this kind of actions carries vocations and works(seaworks). What are the existing barriers, the biggest problem, your innovation is hoping to address/change? - Sport is not a priority in France. Politicians have other priorities. They have difficulties to understand that sport can be a tool to integrate, insert, federate people and precisely young people who have social or physic problems. There is a psychologic barrier.
The other huge problem is the lack of transport: there is no collective transports available to go to the coast and the ocean in France. Lots of youngs don't even know their coastal environment. Delivery Model: How do you implement your innovation and apply it to the challenge/problem you are addressing? - This project is openned to all youngs who don’t have the chance and above all the means to practice this sport.
We generally work with cultural and social centres (70%), structures specialized in insertion( 20%) and schools (10%). Indeed, they should give a participation and pay 6 Euros by young. Then we pay the difference (20 Euros) to surf schools which are conformed to standard. We try to give them better self knowledge, make them aware of their impact on environment and their place on the nature, give them an education for the environment and via the environment, permit youngs to find their place in our society, share our uses, make their more available. How do you plan to grow your innovation? - We have got lots of new projects for 2008.
Every year, more and more youngs benefit of seasports lessons, more especially the ones who come from the South West coast but we try to extend our activity for youngs of all regions. This year, many youngs came from Paris suburbs or Marseille for example. For this new year, we are going to develop some projects. We encourage structures to work more closely with us all over the year, in recurrent activities. . So we develop "worshop of insertion". This kind of activities use to be on various days. Other activities which develop eco-citizenship are developed. It's the case of the project "info-beach" or "eco-museum" created so as to make people be more aware about sensitivity of the seashore. More and more, we develop International help to countries such as Marocco, Portugal and soon Senegal. We try to develop these actions in these countries. Provide one sentence describing your impact/intended impact. - Surf insertion tries to widen the youngs's social, sportive, professional and cultural background.
What impact has your innovation had to date/or what is your intended impact? Exactly who are the beneficiaries? - We note that these activities have a positive impact on young people. As far as the sense of communication is concerned, we note our action improve the will to met and talk friendly with people. Our action also increase the "social mixture". Concerning their sportive capacity and behaviour, they have made a significant effort according to their own level. Although young people think surfing was an impossible thing. Even some would like to involve them thought the years: various take the decision to enroll them in a surfschool. For some youngs, surf becomes a real passion. To most of them, surf has become a subject of conversation.There is a social impact too. The self control and the positive behaviour have changed. Thanks to our actions, the contact has been a success and it has given birth to seasonal works for these youngs.
Thanks to the discover of their natural heritage, they realised that their environment had a primordial importance.
Please list any other measures reflective of the impact of your innovation? - Our President works at the government of sports. He tries to develop the concept of the association to the kayak french federation, the rowing french federation and the sail french federation. He tries to insert the "social" part in all these sports.
What are the main barriers to creating or achieving your impact? - Now, we have to work on our communication. All of these activities (and it organisation) take lots of time.
How is your initiative financed (or how do you expect your initiative will be financed)? - Some french collectivities help us (the regional collectivity, Bordeaux city for example). The "Fondation du sport" is a partership too.
We would like too develop our partership with international organisations. If known, provide information on your finances and organization. - Please list: Annual budget, annual revenue generated, size of part-time, full-time and volunteer staff. 2007 annual budget: 135117 euros ; this budget is redistributed for the activities.
2 half part time jobs, one full time job Few volonteers but it's quite difficult too. What is the potential demand for your innovation? - We would like to develop our activities as more youngs could benefit of these actions.
What are the main barriers to financial sustainability? - We are only three salaries and it's really hard to do all we (and the children, youngs and families) would like to do.
What is the origin of this innovation? Tell us your story. - The project began in 1997.Hassan El Houlali, doctor in education sciences and psychology, decided to create an association destinated to youngs from the suburbs. A simple thing but real lead him to create the associationIndeed, parents of many young people don't have the financial mean to offer them leasures necessary to their mental stability. Face to young people who experience a feel of desertion, the sportive pratical can also permit youngs to improve their self estime. He thought that sea sports could in the same time create a social link and discover their coastal environment.
Competition is not the only finality of sport. He can contribute to the education of these youngs. Please provide a personal bio. Note this may be used in Changemakers marketing material. - The association Surf Insertion put in touch young people of the associative world with professional of sea sports via schools labelised French Federation of Surf.
(Once we respect educational project of varios sicials structures, we book, for them, courses of surf given by schools.) We generally choose themost available schools and the more close to socials structures. We work closely with the teacher, educator so as to, carry out and follow the personal project throughout the year. Thanks to workshop eco-citizenship implemented by a salary of Surf Insertion, we try to sensiblize youngs. Sometimes we contact differents local specialist of environment (ONF, SEPANSO, guides) And since 5 years, we have developed, thanks to regular work, games which allow youngs to discover the seashore : educative set. Thjis educative set is specially used to touch the core of young people ( 8 years to 18 years). Actually, we work with group of 16 persons. Contact Information:
Hassan El Houlali
President Surf insertion (association) Discussions about this entry
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Dear sir,
We are a association based in Bordeaux,France. We would like to enter the contest you are proposing.
Here is our file.
Sorry, we haven't got a video available on chared websites but we can send you some if you want it. We can send you reportages , our press files and activity report. We took note of this contest only yesterday so time defaulted us.
Hopping however you will be interrested in our project, and waiting for your answer.
Kind regards
Laureen THACKWRAY and the team.